So often on mn there are people who berate others for their parenting choices. The people who ask would it be ok if I nip to the shop and leave my child asleep, should I let my child go on the underground alone, is it ok if I go on holiday and leave my dc with their father/grandparents. And inevitably the replies range from "omg you can't do that" to "stop being a helicopter parent" or "my child was walking 2 miles to school alone at 5 yrs old".
There are always children missing. Someone will always say "I would never do that", others will say "I did that but I will never do it again".
I judge people on here for doing things that I would never do. I would never let my children have a trampoline at home, I would never let my child play out on the street unsupervised, I would never give my child grapes without them being cut up, I would never go to bed at night and leave a knife on the side in the kitchen, I would never leave my child in the house alone. I consider the parents that do to be neglectful because if anything happened to their child in any of the above circumstances it would be their fault for putting them in that position in the first place.
I would be told by hundreds of people that I was unreasonable, that people use trampolines everyday without incident, that they were left home without any issues, that a child of 7 doesn't need grapes cutting up, that I was being neurotic and stupid for thinking that a child might get up before me and hurt themselves because I left a knife on the side in the kitchen. But the fact is that children have died in all of the scenarios above and that's because their parents didn't foresee the consequences of their actions, because there was no need to see, because they have done it hundreds of times before and all was well.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It helps us learn from other people's mistakes or bad judgements. It helps us feel,good about ourselves that we didn't or don't do those things.
There is no evidence that the McCanns had anything to do with her disappearance, the waters are very muddied from all the reporting. There is not one person on this thread who wouldn't use every penny, every resource offered to them if their child went missing. Not one person on this thread who would say "it's been 11 years and no sign, that's ok you can stop looking for her now". Not one person who would say to the media "no I won't do more interviews/articles/books because it hasn't worked already" and to imply that they should just stop is utterly ridiculous. It's not the McCanns call that the police are still investigating, still funding it and not one person here would say "it's ok we've used enough of your funding just stop looking".
They don't care what you think, and why should they? Because if your child were missing you would be doing exactly what they are. Looking for them, forever.